Missouri Outdoor

• Whenever you start calling in a new location, start with a soft series of yelps or clucks. If you don’t get a response, increase your volume and aggressiveness. There are times you may have a gobbler close to you and if you start off loud you will scare him away.

• To keep your mouth calls in great shape, store them in a cool, dark place like the refrigerator.

• When a gobbler is with hens and will not come in, one of the best tactics is to try and call the hen in. First, try to copy exactly the sound the hens are making. If a hen yelps seven times come right back with seven yelps. This will frequently anger the hen and make her come in looking for a fight. If it does not, get even more aggressive in your calling by throwing in some excited yelps and cutts. Hopefully, this makes her mad enough to come check you out and bring the gobbler with her.

• To add more realism to your early morning calling, use an old hen turkey wing to help call in gobblers. Brush or flap the wing against the tree you’re sitting up against. This will sound like a turkey moving around in the tree to a gobbler and is often very effective first thing in the morning before they fly down from the roost. When it comes time for the turkeys to fly down, beat the wing on the ground or you leg to simulate a hen turkey that is flying down. Wise old gobblers can sometimes be called in using the sound of the wing only.

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